Portfolio of an Art Student: Graphic Art

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Albert is a Hairless Chinese Crested. This illustration was made in Photoshop using the Pen tool and converting to shapes. It was rendered from tracing a photograph I had taken of him years ago after I shaved him into a mohawk.

My main man, Pepe!

Just for fun.

My girl! Ladies and Gentlemen, give it up for Miss Strawberry Shortcake!

More learning in Illustrator.

Man...I've GOT to get me this software!

What we did in class today.

Bears in Love.

Hey look...it's me...in Vector!

Well, of course, I couldn't resist dumping the Illustrator-crafted image into Photoshop for a spell while I highlighted, and burned away...and well of course...we know what this means...my Vector-masterpiece then turns to Raster...but hey...old habits die hard. Though I'm beginning to LOVE Illustrator, I'm forever attached to Photoshop and I really think at this point Adobe should give this hard-working student a sponsorship (i.e. FREE SOFTWARE) just for plugging their name a-gazillion times! I wonder if they'd do so if I vowed to name my first-born "Adobe". Don't laugh. I've seriously considered it!

Anyhow, without further adieu...here is this week's project for Illustrator class:

We had to start with an image of a human. This is me in my recovering-from-baldness days as my hair started to grow back:

Here is the assignment with requirements fulfilled (designed using tones and tints, each a separate shape in Illustrator):

And...ta DA! The Stacey-souped 'er up in Photoshop version:

Art Contest

Every quarter, my school charges $75 for the parking pass. You can opt to pay $4 per day, which doesn't seem sane in comparison to the flat rate. If you don't buy a pass, they boot your car and fine you $50 for that day. ouch! What I didn't know is that they are constantly looking for artwork entries which get featured on the parking pass itself, and those who's artwork gets selected to grace our rearview mirror passes, get a free parking pass for the quarter in which you're artwork is used! YOWSERS! Free parking! Can't beat that! So I decided to enter this:

I decided to make it spring/summer-eske...because the next two quarters will be Spring/Summer at school. Also...I included the skyline of Atlanta. (brownie points for those who reside/attend school in this wonderful city!)